I'm not sure about NT 4, although NT 3.5 passed C2 testing using NSA's Orange Book procedures instead of the tougher Red Book procedures. The catch is that it is C2 certified only when it doesn't have a network connection.
About an year ago I used an "alternative windows manager" for windoze called litestep. It's customizable, open source, and relatively stable. Litestepe runs on 95/98/NT, http://www.litestep.org
I agree, some developing nations probably don't have electricity or a phone lines. How would they have computers? They are probably too busy fighting a civil war or struggling to get food to the table.
I think the money should go to more important things like food (feed the body) and education. (feed the mind) Once they countries develop and their people no longer have to worry about going to bed hungry every night, then they can start getting computers and internet connections.
I'm not spreading FUD, I'm speaking from personal experiences. I have seen cpus get fried and it ain't pretty. Maybe your celeron can run at 450 with no tweaks, but that doesn't apply to every celeron out there.
yes, there isn't much of a performance difference, but when it comes to overclocking, there's always the risk of killing a cpu, the risk of frying your whole system, and the risk of getting an unstable system. Maybe it wouldn't be so risky if you are just going for an extra 10 to 50 mhz, but this is going from 300 to 450/464/500+ !@#$? Of course we all heard the success stories of overclocking, but heroine brings up a good point -> no one ever reports their failures publicly. While many people make it sound so easy to overclock (set it to 100 mhz bus, up the voltage a little, be sure to have good cooling) in reality, nasty stuff can happen even if you just make one small mistake. (i remember smelling burnt plastic) So think about the risks first before you try to overclock your ~$100 ± 50 celery
Abit is a fine motherboard company, and benchmarks have shown that dual celerons run just as fast, if not faster than pentium IIs. This means Intel will try to take out the celeron's ability to do smp. (forcing us to go with the more expensive pentium IIs/IIIs) Wouldn't that render the BP6 useless in the (near) future?
1. if you got more than one drive, spread them across as many drives as possible
2. partition your hard drives so that the swap partition is either on the outer tracks (faster data transfer) or in the middle (possibly faster access time?)
3. use fast hard drives if possible (7200 / 10K RPM)
4. buy more RAM - (ram is MUCH faster than a hard drive) ram prices are about half of what they were a year ago, and it may still be going down.
I have heard stories about 56k modems only capable of connecting at 28.8. This is what happened to a friend of mine. He has a USR (3com) X2 modem and it connected fine at 50-53k. Then he got a 2nd phone line and now his 2 phone lines can each connect at 28.8, so it seems getting a 2nd phone line split his bandwidth in half...
The sad part is that we have dsl here and he can afford it, but he lives about 2 blocks too far away to get it.
I think an All-in-wonder device would be nice, but it is too futuristic. People should keep it simple and build one-function devices. Once they perfected these one-function devices they can start combining them and build multi-function devices.
Instead of constantly waiting for vaporware products, why don't all slashdotters combine our talents and resources and design our own mp3 player? let's see...
runs on AA batteries use CD-R or CD-RW for 10 hours of music 12X cdrom - read a 3.5 min song in ~20 secs and then spin down to conserve battery power 8 megs of ram to buffer the mp3 file some kind of mp3 decoder chip? and an USB or parallel connector to the PC
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oh you *sad animal*
DOS here stands for Denial of Service, not Disk Operating System
I'm not sure about NT 4, although NT 3.5 passed C2 testing using NSA's Orange Book procedures instead of the tougher Red Book procedures. The catch is that it is C2 certified only when it doesn't have a network connection.
About an year ago I used an "alternative windows manager" for windoze called litestep. It's customizable, open source, and relatively stable. Litestepe runs on 95/98/NT, http://www.litestep.org
I agree, some developing nations probably don't have electricity or a phone lines. How would they have computers? They are probably too busy fighting a civil war or struggling to get food to the table.
I think the money should go to more important things like food (feed the body) and education. (feed the mind) Once they countries develop and their people no longer have to worry about going to bed hungry every night, then they can start getting computers and internet connections.
I aint goona spending $600-$1000 for dual pentium IIIs, the whole point is to use two cheap celerons for smp, right?
I'm not spreading FUD, I'm speaking from personal experiences. I have seen cpus get fried and it ain't pretty. Maybe your celeron can run at 450 with no tweaks, but that doesn't apply to every celeron out there.
yes, there isn't much of a performance difference, but when it comes to overclocking, there's always the risk of killing a cpu, the risk of frying your whole system, and the risk of getting an unstable system. Maybe it wouldn't be so risky if you are just going for an extra 10 to 50 mhz, but this is going from 300 to 450/464/500+ !@#$? Of course we all heard the success stories of overclocking, but heroine brings up a good point -> no one ever reports their failures publicly. While many people make it sound so easy to overclock (set it to 100 mhz bus, up the voltage a little, be sure to have good cooling) in reality, nasty stuff can happen even if you just make one small mistake. (i remember smelling burnt plastic) So think about the risks first before you try to overclock your ~$100 ± 50 celery
Abit is a fine motherboard company, and benchmarks have shown that dual celerons run just as fast, if not faster than pentium IIs. This means Intel will try to take out the celeron's ability to do smp. (forcing us to go with the more expensive pentium IIs/IIIs) Wouldn't that render the BP6 useless in the (near) future?
here are my suggestions for swap files:
1. if you got more than one drive, spread them across as many drives as possible
2. partition your hard drives so that the swap partition is either on the outer tracks (faster data transfer) or in the middle (possibly faster access time?)
3. use fast hard drives if possible (7200 / 10K RPM)
4. buy more RAM - (ram is MUCH faster than a hard drive) ram prices are about half of what they were a year ago, and it may still be going down.
I have heard stories about 56k modems only capable of connecting at 28.8. This is what happened to a friend of mine. He has a USR (3com) X2 modem and it connected fine at 50-53k. Then he got a 2nd phone line and now his 2 phone lines can each connect at 28.8, so it seems getting a 2nd phone line split his bandwidth in half...
The sad part is that we have dsl here and he can afford it, but he lives about 2 blocks too far away to get it.
oh gosh.... sometimes everyone makes stupid mistakes, just ignore that last part :)
I think an All-in-wonder device would be nice, but it is too futuristic. People should keep it simple and build one-function devices. Once they perfected these one-function devices they can start combining them and build multi-function devices.
Instead of constantly waiting for vaporware products, why don't all slashdotters combine our talents and resources and design our own mp3 player? let's see...
runs on AA batteries
use CD-R or CD-RW for 10 hours of music
12X cdrom - read a 3.5 min song in ~20 secs and then spin down to conserve battery power
8 megs of ram to buffer the mp3 file
some kind of mp3 decoder chip?
and an USB or parallel connector to the PC